Is it open, transparent government when six Hamilton County commissioners, after weeks of public meetings where they and the public heard detailed budget requests, vote to give themselves $100,000 each out of Continue Reading

During a public meeting yesterday, Hamilton County commissioners took aim at the requirement in the state’s Open Meetings Act, sometimes referred to as the sunshine law, that formation of public Continue Reading

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 3, 2014 CONTACTS: Deborah Fisher, executive director, Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, fisher@tcog.info, (615) 602-4080; Michael T. Martinez, president of the East Tennessee Professional Chapter of the Society Continue Reading